"It's plug'n'play as we look at the art and science of videogames. Kurt Andersen and his guest, Slate contributor Clive Thompson, talk about how this multi-billion dollar industry is changing the culture even for people who don't play games. We'll check out the prototype for Urban Resolve, the military's video game designed to teach soldiers how to wage urban warfare. We'll hear about a young multimedia artist, born in the age of Atari, for whom reprogrammed old games is just another color on the palette. Plus, Richard Linklater stops by to talk about A Scanner Darkly, his adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel about a drug war, and how he shed the mantle of the Gen-X Slacker director." Listen here